sideburns

Meanwhile, his own campaign team cares more about the length of his sideburns than ideas in his head.

The fulcrum of a cultural transition from vibrancy to stagnation was the 1970s, an era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns.

He began wearing braids to comply, but management still took issue with Obeng’s sideburns, which he considered important to his cultural identity, according to the lawsuit.

With sideburns and the sharpest mod feather cut, he even looked good in Lycra.

Monochrome images taken in 1973 show London Victoria railway station frozen in time - an era of large sideburns and public lockers, platform tickets and boat trains to France and Belgium.